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BYU International Week lecturers:
Gregory J. Newell, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Charles T. Vetter, U.S. Foreign Service Institute
Alexander B. Morrison, assistant deputy minister,
Canada’s Department of National Health and Welfare
Conference:
“U.S.–Arab Relations: the Current Political and Economic
Commitment”
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Center for Intern
and Area
Stanley A. Taylor
1983–1985
Through a career that spanned the educational and political
fields, Stanley A. Taylor was well prepared to become the
director of the Kennedy Center. Taylor received a degree in
political science from BYU in 1959. He then went on to
receive an MA and a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. During his time as a student, Taylor developed
an interest and expertise in world politics, international
law and organization, and diplomacy.
These specialties would serve him well throughout his professional
life. After returning to his alma mater, this time as a
professor, Taylor quickly became involved in the international
programs that were beginning to blossom at BYU. He became
the director of the Center for International and Area Studies in
the fall of 1979. In the political realm, Taylor worked as a consultant
and a staff member for the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence for a decade, from 1976 to 1986.
Taylor was heavily involved when the Kennedy Center
was organized on 17 November 1983. His work during the
center’s infant stage ignited BYU interaction with the rest of
the world.
Since his time at the Kennedy Center, Taylor has continued
to provide his insights to those with international interests.
From 1989 to 1992, he chaired the Political Science
Department at BYU. He has also been a visiting Fulbright lecturer
at the University of Otago in New Zealand and a visiting
fellow at the University of Kent in England.
Taylor has five children, now grown, and loves to play the
trumpet. He continues to teach at BYU, where he has received
numerous citations for excellence in teaching.
1985
Ray C. Hillam named Kennedy Center director
BYU students traveled to Russia for summer program, American
Council of Teachers of Russian
Arthur Bassett replaced Neal Lambert as American
Studies coordinator
Bruce Beaman replaced Larry Shumway as Asian Studies
coordinator